What Does Joshua 19:29 Mean in the King James?
And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The boundary is defined not only by where it runs, but by where it issues out at the sea.
THE MEANING
You meet a portion of land made precise by its boundary: it bends past named places and reaches the sea. Its turns and outgoings show how the edge itself gives the place a definite shape.
THE ROOT
תֹצְאֹתָיו
totsa'otav
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
To go out, emerge, or issue forth.
English makes “outgoings” sound like a label for a boundary endpoint; the Hebrew word keeps the motion of יצא (yatsa, to go out) inside it. The border is described by where it issues toward the sea, using the same root that can describe a river going out from Eden.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or depart.
יָצָא
This verb carries the movement preserved in the border’s “outgoings.”
motsa: An exit, outlet, or point of going forth.
מוֹצָא
This branch names a place of emergence, echoing the boundary’s endpoint at the sea.
THE PATTERN
A place becomes definite through the lines and endpoints that mark its bounds.
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;THE THREAD
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.Joshua’s “outgoings” and Genesis’s “went out” both carry יצא (yatsa, to go out or issue forth). Here the land’s boundary issues toward the sea; there a river issues from Eden, so the same Hebrew motion marks an edge in one verse and a source in the other.
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